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Monday, February 5, 2018

The Gophers & the Super Bowl

Let’s Address What Has A Lot Of College Fans
Ticked Off This AM…

And that’s this clip right here:

That’s Michigan Man on Michigan Man Football,
folks. (Unfortunately, the clip cuts out before Al Michaels calls it “Michigan
Man on Michigan Man”) And they are two
of the best that played in the Big House and maybe didn’t get the results they
deserved while in college. Brady having
to share playing time with Drew Henson and Graham playing for what had to be
some of the worst defensive teams that Michigan fielded under Rich Rod
(but was
recruited by Carr). The Rich Rod
Defenses have become a picture in the dictionary that comes up when you
search for the definition to “Oxymoron”.
They weren’t good. And the scheme
they were playing in was not being coached correctly…obviously.

Graham creating that game sealing fumble was bitter sweet. I mean, yes, I would have loved to see Brady
drive for the winning score with 2 and change left, but fate decided otherwise. And if there was ever a deserving guy, Graham
is it.

Everyone else will be talking Foles and others
today, but the story at the end of the game was a “Michigan Man” on a “Michigan
Man”.

Yep – That’s what has a whole bunch of College
Football people pissed off on this Monday Morning After...They had to hear
about Michigan during a great Super Bowl…

Games – Dates – Time – Result - Record

Illinois(H) January
6th Noon WON 79-69 14-3

Purdue
(H) January 9th 9:00 PM Lost 70-69 14-4

Sparty (A) January
13th Noon WON 82-72 15-4

Maryland (H) January
15th 6:30 PM WON 68-67 16-4

Nebraska (A) January 18th 8:00 PM LOST 72-52 16-5

Rutgers
(H) January 21st Noon WON
62-47 17-5

Purdue (A) January 25th 7:00 PM LOST 92-88 17-6

Northwestern
(H) January 29th 7:00 PM WON 58-47 18-6

Minnesota
(H) February 3rd 2:30 PM WON 76-73
(OT) 19-6

Northwestern (A) February 6th 6:00PM

Wiscy (A) February 11th Noon

Iowa (H) February
14th 6:30 PM

Suckeyes
(H) February 18th 1:00 PM

PSU (A) February 21st 7:00 PM

Maryland (A) February 24th Noon

Jeez…It Wasn’t Pretty, But It Is A “W”

If you watched this game on
Saturday, you were thinking that Michigan is going to lose because of (Pick any
or all that apply):

Missed Free Throws - 42% for the game. That SUCKS…

Missed Three Point Attempts – 25%
for the game

Lousy Defense

ATROCIOUS REFEREEING!!!

All of the above…

Michigan again couldn’t
find the basket even though they were getting wide open 3-point looks that
this team usually drops with aplomb. For
whatever reason, the Crisler Hoops weren’t allowing those shots to fall and Michigan
found itself in a dog fight with a pesky Gopher team that WOULDN’T GO AWAY.

What was becoming increasingly
clear for me was that the Gophers had decided they weren’t laying down and were
playing as I alluded to on Friday – with House Money. The attitude of “Screw it. We’re out of this but let’s try to make
someone else’s season a little more miserable.” And they almost did. The Gophers shot an incredible 63% from the
field and hung around in this game, took it to OT and almost came away with a
win.

Almost.

But, winning teams find a way and that’s
exactly what Michigan did. Yes,
your eyes weren’t deceiving you and Michigan did start playing a Zone Defense
and that seemed to help. And they found
a way to win.

In actuality, as was observed by
SuperFan, the last seconds refereeing had to be the worst I’ve seen in some
time. Robinson should have been on the line and was
FOULED REPEATEDLY. If you didn’t
see it, jump to the 1 hour 7 minute and 30 second mark. (1:07:30) You’ll
understand the anger of the no-call.

All that and no whistle – except for moving
the pivot foot. I’ll let SuperFan
Summarize Here:

When viewed in slow-motion, it becomes absolutely
unarguable that Robinson was viciously hacked at least three times by two
different players long before he slid his pivot. These were OBVIOUS fouls
at any time of the game, but when everyone in the arena knows that Minn is
trying to foul, AND IS, in fact FOULING THE HELL out of the opponent, the lack
of a foul call is inexcusable. This is how fights start and real serious
injuries happen! Or the team that is behind ends-up being forced to
commit an obvious intentional foul, because the normal foul/fouls isn't called
until the A-hole refs see blood on the court.

Ah….Blood On the Court.

Could be the working title of a book regarding
this season’s officiating. It has been
bad. I have a feeling there will be more
bad calls.

I hate Refs..

This was, without a doubt, one of
the ugliest games I’ve seen in awhile and hopefully Michigan is treating it a little
like a loss in order to keep their edge. I don’t know what else to say about it except
that over the course of a season, you’re going to have ugly wins.

This was one of them.

Up Next – Northwestern, Tomorrow at 6:00 PM

If Michigan plays tomorrow like
they did on Saturday, keep your expectations for a “W” in Evanston low.

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